Decent into World War 3

Only 70 years ago was the beginning of the end of World War Two when D-Day unfolded and the reclamation of Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. This was a struggle that ended with many millions of people being killed, murdered in many cases, the rise of:

The United Nations to prevent further such global wars;

The War Crime Commission in the Hague to make sure that crimes committed during war against humanity would be prosecuted;

The Jewish homeland called Israel followed shortly after the end of the war;

The independent countries free from colonial rule;

Nuclear weapons, the proliferation of which escalated in the Cold War that followed between the West and Russia;

It is in this context that we can see the origins of the current problems being experienced in the Middle East, across the ancient and at one time great…